Comments on: 1984, Animal Farm [George Orwell] and The Family Book Club

By: TheFunkyBee

TheFunkyBee — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:52:34 +0000

The first rule of Book Club is - you do not talk about Book Club.
The second rule of Book Club is - you DO NOT talk about Book Club.

Sounds like you all had a good visit up north! Happy New Year Corinna, Adam and Gus

By: Liz Grady

Liz Grady — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:40:37 +0000

I read both 1984 and Animal Farm in highschool, and liked them both. Did you know that the year 1984 was chosen simply because he wrote in 1948? And of course it seemed like forver away…
On VOX I’m in a club to read 50 books in 365 days. People talk about why they liked the book, etc, you may like something like that…

By: jenn

jenn — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:39:50 +0000

I love The Time Traveler’s Wife. It’s one of my all-time favorites.

I’d love to be in a book club, but I don’t have time. Well, I do have time, but I’m too lazy to do it. Boy, that’s a conundrum.

1984 is pretty awesome, too.

By: Corinna's Mom

Corinna's Mom — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:20:40 +0000

Hi: in the Prince George library 1984 is one of the “Staff’s Best Picks”.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:52:52 +0000

How cool!

I’ve never belonged to a book club and used to read a lot, but never read fiction anymore. Over Christmas though Reilly bought me the first book from the movie The Golden Compass as we saw the movie and I said I’d enjoy the book, and ended up reading the first on the way home for xmas and bought the last two at the airport on the way back due to a delayed flight and got them all read within a couple of days. I realized how much I enjoy reading, but outside of the insane stack of business and marketing related books I keep adding to, I don’t make time for it.

I think it’s cool that you chose 1984. I a few years ago Reilly did 1984 in his uni English class and realizing that I was probably the only intelligent person on the planet who had not read the book I picked it up and read it as well. Very glad I did. I know EXACTLY what you mean when you start hearing it everywhere - there are so many references to it that I never realized before having read it. It makes me wonder how many other references I’m missing in everyday life because of books I haven’t read.

The book club thing is a great idea, and something that is great to share with the parents. It would be interesting to have discussions that bring up parts of their lives that you never hear about - I’m just now at the same age as my mom was when she had me, and it’s crazy to think that up until this point in her life I know relatively very little. General themes and such, but a lot goes on before kids happen that we don’t often know about. Having regular discussion times aka book club based on topics other than present day/what are you doing/family etc. would be so interesting and valuable.

Missed you guys on Sat - we’ll need to hook up soon. Hope all is well with you!